AAP takes EVM protest to Election Commission
Team Udayavani, May 11, 2017, 12:37 PM IST
New Delhi: Hundreds of AAP workers today demonstrated outside the Election Commission headquarters here demanding that voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT)- equipped EVMs be used in future elections.
The protesters, including AAP MLAs and newly appointed Delhi convener Gopal Rai, alleged that the manipulation of electronic voting machines was killing democracy.
“EVM manipulation is a real possibility and should be looked into immediately,” said R K Gupta, an AAP worker who had come from Dwarka in southwest Delhi to the poll panel’s central Delhi headquarters.
“This is how BJP won polls in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Even the division along caste lines could not have helped them with such a huge victory,” added Pragati, another worker, who had come from Mundka near the city’s western border.
Asked to elaborate, most protesters cited AAP legislator Saurabh Bhardwaj’s live demo on EVM manipulation in the Delhi Assembly.
Apart from demanding that VVPAT-equipped EVMs be used, the party plans to approach the Election Commission with the request that votes registered in EVMs and paper trails of 25 per cent randomly chosen booths be tallied.
VVPAT-equipped EVMs dispense paper slips which help voters confirm that their vote has indeed gone to the candidate of their choice.
Participating in a discussion on the issue during a day- long special session of the Delhi Assembly earlier this week, Bhardwaj claimed that a voting machine could be manipulated by simply feeding it with a “secret code”.
Using what his party claimed was a prototype EVM developed by a group of IITians, Bhardwaj, himself an engineer, showed how it could be tampered with to favour a particular candidate.
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